Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Enforcement

Nine months after Mayor de Blasio announced his big placard crackdown, it has yet to reach Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn, where bus riders stew in traffic while placard-holding government employees illegally park in the bus lane.

While Mayor de Blasio and NYPD punish delivery workers for riding electric bicycles, drivers who run people over with semi trucks are not being penalized in any way, even when the truck is too large to be operated legally on city streets.

There are good reasons to watchdog camera enforcement programs and ensure that they are set up fairly. But the ACLU isn’t making recommendations about how to preserve the integrity of traffic cameras - it is lending its name to an outright ban.